Comments on: Cafe Mess

By: A. Zee

A. Zee — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:31:34 +0000

What a complete mockery of a “business.” You were so right to hang up on that biatch and never go back.

By: me

me — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:43:14 +0000

there should be a tag for ‘breaking the law’.

By: rafboy

rafboy — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:12:08 +0000

Sorry. My mistake- the higher wage trumps the lower wage. Whichever is the higher wage is the one you’re supposed to get.

By: TMS

TMS — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:49:20 +0000

I wouldn’t let these people run an ant farm, let alone a business. They sound like they had absolutely no idea from day one what they were doing, and I’m surprised they lasted six months. Hell, I’m surprised they lasted six days. Good for you though for not putting up with it, and after one day of that hell, I wouldn’t have gone back either.

By: Tanek

Tanek — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:27:32 +0000

state minimum wae doesn’t REALLY trump national. They are two seperate bodies of law, you can violate one without violating the other. However, unless you’re paying at or above both the state minimum wage AND federal national wage you are violating the law.

By: OP

OP — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:24:34 +0000

Hey all, OP here. I did smell something fishy about the cash-only payment, but it could’ve been worse. The owner told me to bring in my social securities card so he could eventually get direct deposit going for me. As crappy as getting paid cash is, I’m glad those people didn’t get my SSN to boot.

I guess they couldn’t find anyone with half a brain that would want to work for them, so their son ended up working for them. One of the few times I went in there, he said they paid him in soda. I really hope he was joking.

By: Surrealian

Surrealian — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:23:48 +0000

Wow… that sounds horrible. What they were doing was illegal, and they were taking advantage of the fact that you were underage and didn’t know any better. Good for you for not continuing working there.

By: efaneo

efaneo — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:57:12 +0000

If I was one of those artists I’d have smashes a window to get my art back, ‘s all I’m saying.

By: Frau Blucher

Frau Blucher — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:11:33 +0000

what losers. I hope they got taken to court.

By: rafboy

rafboy — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:20:07 +0000

Two things- state minimum wage trumps national. And them paying you cash probably meant that they didn’t pay taxes on your earnings.
Having been in a similar situation where an employer paid me cash (less taxes, deducted from my pay)- and then never paid tax on my earnings, the IRS could have come after you, if you didn’t report them first (as I did to my employer). But then again, seeing that they didn’t pay you the state minimum wage, I’m guessing they wouldn’t have reported your income at all.